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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nicely
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
ask
▪ All they had to do was ask nicely.
balance
▪ His walk was nicely balanced, arms swinging loosely.
▪ This delicious braised duck dish is nicely balanced by the slight sweetness and tartness of the fruit.
▪ In general terms, it was nicely balanced.
brown
▪ Turn and continue cooking until nicely browned, 2 to 3 minutes.
▪ Place quail on rack in roasting pan and roast until nicely browned, about 9 to 10 minutes.
fit
▪ The log transformation was found to fit nicely at the zero position on the ladder of powers.
▪ I bought a cloche, which is a domed clay oven that fits nicely into any regular oven.
▪ Even these should fit nicely if you did your planning carefully.
illustrate
▪ Helen, neutrally listening, anaesthetised by her state of uplift, thought that they nicely illustrated the condition of the place.
▪ The point is nicely illustrated by an important case arising out of the miners' strike of 1984-85.
▪ Some of those differences are nicely illustrated.
▪ The problems of criterion validity nicely illustrate the difficulty of finding any solid foundation on which to construct a psychometric measure.
▪ Jane Smith's murine cries were nicely illustrated by way of their electronic imitation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ann dresses her children nicely.
▪ Each new water molecule fits nicely into a space on the ice surface.
▪ His arm is healing nicely.
▪ If you ask Daddy nicely, I'm sure he'll give you some.
▪ Turn the fillets and cook until nicely browned, 2 to 3 minutes longer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Even these should fit nicely if you did your planning carefully.
▪ His assistants were keeping up with it nicely.
▪ The airy, delicate fronds contrast nicely with the rough, heavy rocks.
▪ The apartment was big, spacious, and nicely furnished.
▪ The cover shot nicely evokes the bewilderment felt when climbing in Ordesa.
▪ The government says farmers are doing nicely, thank you, and that savings in agricultural cooperatives are rising.
▪ The importance of the calls was demonstrated nicely by Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nicely

Nicely \Nice"ly\ adv. In a nice manner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nicely

early 14c., "foolishly," from nice + -ly (2). From c.1600 as "scrupulously;" 1714 as "in an agreeable fashion."

Wiktionary
nicely

adv. 1 (context obsolete English) fastidiously; carefully. (16th-18th c.) 2 precisely; with fine discernment or judgement. (from 17th c.) 3 pleasantly; satisfactorily. (from 18th c.)

WordNet
nicely

adv. in a nice way; "a nicely painted house"

Wikipedia
Nicely

People commonly known solely by their family name Nicely include:

  • Nick Nicely — musician
  • Jonnie Nicely — Playboy model
  • Tony Nicely — CEO

Usage examples of "nicely".

In a glass cabinet nearby was an odd black stone, of irregular outline, small enough to lift, but large enough to brain an afrit nicely.

I had the breasts of a woman, and very fine ones they were, too: shapely, upthrusting, ivory-skinned, with nicely large, fawn-colored areole around tumescent nipples, the whole array shining with sweat and a trickle meandering down the cleft between.

When the eggs are nicely poached, remove the eggs, with the asparagus below, on to rounds of toasted and buttered bread.

Has it occurred to the Baas what clever people we are, all of whose plans have succeeded so nicely?

Three nicely buffed executive wives without husbands, down from the large stone houses in the hills to the west, idled over glasses of chardonnay in the nonsmoking section.

There was a lovely square in that villa, and Tirant had ordered them to make a pretty cenotaph there, nicely decorated with brocade and satin cloths.

Which lead Dagon to believe that Sarina was working out quite nicely in the laundry room.

Then he added the pieces of chicken one at a time to the sizzling pan, browning them nicely on one side and the other, then removing them and briefly cooking the mushrooms and the garlic, before adding the wine to deglaze the pan and create a delicate, thin sauce.

Things were hotting up nicely and I was whipping out through Donnybrook heading for the Montrose hotel.

At the end, what had been Stuart Landsmann was nicely stored on a single Data Identity Membrane Ecesis, or dime, for short.

With the first look of apprehension and the first wheeze, she pounced with the ephedrine or the isoprenaline, summoned one of the professors, and had the sufferer nicely propped up in a chair by the time someone arrived, ready to be talked out of further wheezes, and if that were not possible, ready for whatever treatment was ordered.

We have got a great heap of it in the yard, and it is fermenting nicely.

I told him that doctors often put bones into quicklime to whiten them nicely, and that I supposed Dr Pratt had once had a little lime pit in the garden for that purpose, and had forgotten the jaw.

But Gein is there nicely acquired, across to Fish, up that left wing again.

I kissed her hand and told her that I had never seen linen so nicely done.